Oregon’s
legislature will convene on February 4th. Representative Michael Dembrow will chair
the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee. Dembrow
recently told me the committee would hold hearings on online education in higher
ed. We will see.
…. As we look to the future of higher education, said the M.I.T. president,
L. Rafael Reif, something that we now call a “degree” will be a concept “connected
with bricks and mortar” — and traditional on-campus experiences that will
increasingly leverage technology and the Internet to enhance classroom and
laboratory work. Alongside that, though, said Reif, many universities will
offer online courses to students anywhere in the world, in which they will earn
“credentials” — certificates that testify that they have done the work and
passed all the exams. The process of developing credible credentials that
verify that the student has adequately mastered the subject — and did not cheat
— and can be counted on by
employers is still being perfected by all the MOOCs.
But once it is, this phenomenon will really scale.
I can see a day soon where you’ll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world — some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh — paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. It will change teaching, learning and the pathway to employment. “There is a new world unfolding,” said Reif, “and everyone will have to adapt.”
Yes, higher ed in Oregon will have to adapt too. Hopefully we will get a good airing of what is now happening in Oregon and how Oregon higher ed proposes to adapt.
Maybe you have never really understand my existence.
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